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State and Local
1t^&M budget up $40 million, 5.9 percent
ratio and i By Loyd Brumf,eld
I vil Senior Staff Writer
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administrators are generally pleased
yoursellj*! th e newly-approved record
tnally findjWget, even though government-
r *ct standaifflded appropriations were mini-
rules stair mal’
to anyd® he $794,840,723 budget, a 5.9
il rl n pq|cent and $40 million increase
any cl;
! n . iroin 1987-88, was approved by the
Wind) IiuKm Board of Regents late last
iperature ii month.
■"he College Station campus bud-
ents for ii? et i ncrea sed $20 million dollars
vnu u.;il 5Vtr last y ear ’ s budget to
rn fl i^B3,968,433 — nearly 60 percent
U llUBia^L^ system’s total budget.
e able tollV
you didnoijnil parts of the University System
the propti^®ived increases with the excep-
tessary tuition of the Texas Agricultural Ex
tension Service, whose budget went
down about one percent from
■,982,522 to 50,289,963.
Lancaster, Vice Chancellor
rat collegetfor Budgets and Human resources,
he classes. ■ most budgetary increases came
. ,Rhe form of local research con-
‘.enioragn tra(ts
nd editor
■There weren’t any significant in-
creascs in state appropriations,” he
said. “In fact there was hardly any
■ease at all. Most increases came
about through revenues from con-
■ts and that sort of thing.”
MLancaster said general academic
ai$as also received more money.
■Most University services didn’t
Reive increases with the exception
oRhe 2 percent across-the-board in-
c||ases in salaries for all non-faculty
hienibers.”
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tell anyoml
Ronnie Jackson, fiscal officer for
he Agricultural Extension Service,
laid although the service received
nits, they were minimal at best.
“Most (cuts) came in our grants
ind rontracts, which are mainly used
for educational purposes,” he said.
“Our government-appropriated
funds haven’t changed much.”
Jackson said the funding should
be adequate to meet the service’s
needs.
“You never have enough money,
but we came out of the last biennium
in pretty good shape,” he said. “We
need to keep pace with inflation and
the needs of consumers. If we do
that, we should be all right.”
The services within the College of
Engineering received the greatest
budget increase, with the Texas En
gineering Experiment Station get
ting the largest boost. The station’s
budget went up 25 percent, from
$27,649,495 to $34,621,921.
The Texas Engineering Exten
sion Service was given an additional
$3 million for a total budget of
$19,471,815. An increase of 16 per
cent over last year.
The increases for these services
were given because of the type of
work involved, Lancaster said.
“Both engineering stations do a
lot of contract research,” he said.
“The extension service does a lot of
training programs for fees and that’s
a matter of more work, primarily.”
Carol Justus-Cantrell, assistant di
rector of business affairs for the ex
periment station, said the service’s
increases are the result of increases
in sponsor research.
“Our government funds are pre
tty much fixed,” she said. “We’re an
ticipating more research dollars and
we have more projects coming in.”
Justus-Cantrell said although the
budget is adequate, the station can
use more money for personnel serv
ices.
“We’re expecting a good year, but
we were hoping to get more for staff
raises,” she said. “We’re limited by
system guidelines. We try to make
sure it’s a system that’s equitable.”
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James Bradley, director of the ex
tension service, said the increases
within the service come mainly be
cause of technological advances.
“If you don’t keep up with tech
nology in this business, you’re dead,’\
he said. “If you fall even two or three
years behind, you’re in trouble.”
The quality of the service had a lot
to do with the budgetary increase,
Bradley said.
“We stay right on technology,” he
said. “We’re one of the few institu
tions that has the faculty and staff to
stay abreast of technology.
“We’re attuned to today’s market.
If you want to survive, you have to
keep up with modern technology.”
Both Prarie View A&M University
and Tarleton State University re
ceived budget increases. Prarie View
A&M’s budget jumped about $3 mil
lion or about five percent to
$59,917,965, and Tarleton State re
ceived more than a $2 million in
crease for a total budget of
$22,973,546. About 10 percent
more than last year.
Jerry Graham, director of busi
ness services for Tarleton State, said
the additional funds were split be
tween educational services and local
services.
Graphic by Taani Baier
“About $1 million went to general
educational applications, while the
other million went in for room and
board fees and things of that natu
re,” he said.
Tarleton State received just about
what it needs to prosper, Graham
said.
“You never have exactly what you
need, but basically we have a good
budget,” he said. “Our growth rate is
very high since last semester and we
should have a good summer, too.
“It’ll be a challenge, but I think we
can live with it.”
HOUSTON (AP) — Tenneco
Inc., the nation’s lOth-largest oil
.company, said Tuesday it has re
ceived several offers for its oil and
gas operations since putting them up
for sale two weeks ago.
A spokesman declined to discuss
details of any of the offers, but fi
nancial analysts have estimated the
units could fetch between $5 billion
to $7 billion.
Joseph M. Macrum, the Tenneco
spokesman, also would not identify
any of the bidders, except to confirm
that an offer had been received from
Gulf Financial Resources Inc., a pri
vate Houston-based investment firm
financed by European interests.
Gulf Financial said Monday that it
had sent Tenneco Chairman James
L. Ketelsen a letter asking for a
meeting to discuss details oi its un
disclosed cash offer.
Tenneco announced on May 25
that it wanted to get out of the oil
and gas business to concentrate on
its shipbuilding, farm equipment,
.auto parts and chemicals operations.
It said it would use the proceeds to
reduce its $8.5 billion debt.
Henri A. Soussan, a principal in
Gulf Financial, would not reveal the
offered price or other details con
cerning the proposal, which was
made to Tenneco in a letter last
Wednesday.
Macrum said Gulf Financial was
one of “many” firms that had ex
pressed an interest in acquiring the
oil and gas units.
“We have received more than an
ticipated,” Macrum said. He said he
did not have a definite number, but
said “it’s a lot, very extensive.”
The sale is being handled by the
investment banking firms Morgan
Stanley Corp. and First Boston
Corp.
puest professor: Research needed for multicultural education in U.S.
By Janet Goode
Senior Staff Writer
Rlulticultural education is some
thing all good Americans need to be
good Americans, said Dr. Martin
flabennan, a professor of education
iroin the University of Wisconsin
jgiesday to a group of about 50
^duate students and faculty mem-
5.
laberman, a guest speaker in
h of a week-long seminar on in-
jcultural education, said he hoped
jinterest education graduate stu
dents in the importance of multicul
tural education in America and to
present them with research ideas for
possible dissertations.
Haberman said he envisions the
different cultures in America in hav
ing changed from being a “melting
pot” only tolerant of each other, to a
society where each group maintains
its own ethnicity and integrity while
accepting other cultures.
“The vision I have of America is
all the circles being open-ended,” he
said, “where everybody has standard
English, can do well in school and
know what is needed to make it in
the larger society, but without losing
their cultural roots.’’
Haberman said to accomplish this
type of society it takes three kinds of
learning: how to function in society
as a whole, in cultural subgroups
and as individuals.
One question that has to be an
swered before studying cultural
America, Haberman said, is what
makes people American.
Haberman says sociologist Robin
Williams’ model shows that being an
American is difficult since American
values often come in conflict with
each other. For example, he said,
Williams says we value freedom, but
Americans also want activity and
work and cherish moral orientation.
Americans want democracy, but also
value efficiency, progress, science
rationality, and on the negative side,
racism, Haberman said. “Being an
American is a daily challenge,” he
said.
Haberman said another reason to
study multicultural education is that
Americans don’t know much about
their own minorities.
After emphasizing the impor
tance of multicultural education,
Haberman presented ideas for re
search.
He said he would like to see stud
ies on how teachers resolve value
conflicts with children. He asked
what a teacher should do when an
assignment conflicts with a families’
cultural or religious beliefs?
He said studies could also be done
in the area of the “short-changed
child of suburbia!” How much do
they really know about minorities?,
he asked.
Haberman said he would also like
to know how a teacher can be taught
enthusiasm and committment,
rather than just be accepted with
high grades.
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